Middle English Dictionary Entry
belwen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | belwen v. Also belewi, -ow & bylȝen, belien. Forms: p. bælh, bel(e)wede; ppl. bollȝhenn, ibolve. |
| Etymology | OE belgan, bealh, bolgen & bylgan. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To become angry, be enraged; also, provoke (sb.); (b) to cry out in anger, rage, roar; (c) of animals: to roar, bellow; of the wind, the sea: roar, rage.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)106/3 : Ne sceole we nenne mon bylȝen.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7159 : He wass gramm & grill & bollȝhenn.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8144 : He warrþ wraþ & bollghenn.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15839 : Þis ihærde Mærlin and bælh on his mode, and þas word sæide, wrað þeh he weore.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)145 : Þos hule..sat tosvolle & ibolve, Also ho hadde one frogge isuolȝe.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1051 : Þe king and þat mid him was..heo criden on þis holi man and beleweden ech-on.
- c1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)57 : Þe deuelene..guonne to grenne and reme, Belewi, and wel foule crie.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8196 : Þe dragons..hadde longe to-gyder smyten, Spatled, spouted, belewed, & byten.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)47.213 : The kyng..forth In the Cyte gan..to go, Cryeng and belwenge As A fend.
c
- c1330 St.Mary Magd.(1) (Auch)280 : Þe se wel hard bigan To ȝellen & to belien þan.
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)401 : Beestes gan Belwe in eueri binne.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2113 : He torneth him into a Bole And gan to belwe.
- a1400 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Paris n.a. lat.699)274 : Beloweth [Cmb: tor torreie: bole yelleth].
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)11.333 : Þere ne was cow þat wolde belwe after boles.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)8 : Tyche bletuþ, bole belweþ.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)16 : Þan þei bygynne..to belewe and to..seke þe hyndes.
- ?a1425 WBible(2) (Cld E.2)Jer.50.11 : [Ȝe ben sched out as caluys..and] lowiden ether bellewiden [as bolis].
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1803 : He gan to blasen out a soun As lowde as beloweth wynd in helle.